It really is incredible about Lowe. But his schomoozing of the press has never known any bounds, leveraging his position as an executive, to give any press willing to take him serious, a look behind the Oiler scenes and paint rosy pictures of turds, all for the betterment of his ego to be revered in media hockey circles, and for being able to get favourable coverage for the club at a later date by the same national press. Of course having the local press in the palm of his hand, which allowed him to be passing blame off to puppets like Tambelleni, Chia, MacTavish, Eakins etc etc etc making up for his lack of hockey managerial sense and player development ability.
He convinced/conned players and smart people like Chris Pronger, Erik Cole, Tom Renney and Pat Quinn etc to join the organization, as well as countless others over the years, most of who very quickly regretted the decision. He has no problem trotting out his affiliation with Gretzky or the universally loved Hockey Canada affiliation to forward his cause, so he has the gift of gab.
So, he’s played the schmoozing game probably for many years behind the scenes, hoping to get this vote, and he’s got it, and his ego won’t fit inside the building up there now, now that he’s been given the pat on the back by his peers that he’s wanted so much, and wishes (and maybe assumed) he has also as an executive.
But for what he did on the ice? Longevity is about it.
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